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Sam Bottoms dies at 53; actor appeared in 'Apocalypse Now,' 'Last Picture Show'
Sam Bottoms, a film and television actor who played the role of California surfer-turned-GI Lance Johnson in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now," has died. He was 53.
By Dennis McLellan
December 18, 2008
